RHEL6 is Now End of Life

RHEL6 reached end of life (EOL) on 30th November 2020.

As a consequence, the ELRepo Project has likewise ended support for el6. All el6 related packages (except for elrepo-release) have been removed from the repository.

RHEL6 customers on extended update support (EUS) wishing to continue to access our content may do so through the archives but this content will not be maintained nor supported.

The ELRepo team would like to thank all of our users for their support throughout the ten years of existence of RHEL6.

Going forwards, we continue to support both RHEL7 and RHEL8 until those products reach their scheduled end of life.

Any rebuild project(s) of the above Red Hat operating systems are also welcome to consume our products.

As always, we build our products on RHEL systems for users of RHEL systems.

A Brief Guide on How to Access the ELRepo Project Repositories

Welcome to ELRepo, an RPM repository for Enterprise Linux packages. ELRepo supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and its derivatives (Scientific Linux, CentOS & others).

The ELRepo Project focuses on hardware related packages to enhance your experience with Enterprise Linux. This includes filesystem drivers, graphics drivers, network drivers, sound drivers, webcam and video drivers.

How to Get Started

Import the public key:

rpm --import https://www.elrepo.org/RPM-GPG-KEY-elrepo.org

To Install ELRepo for RHEL-8 or CentOS-8:

yum install https://www.elrepo.org/elrepo-release-8.el8.elrepo.noarch.rpm

To Install ELRepo for RHEL-7, SL-7 or CentOS-7:

yum install https://www.elrepo.org/elrepo-release-7.el7.elrepo.noarch.rpm

To make use of our mirror system, please also install yum-plugin-fastestmirror.

To Install ELRepo for RHEL-6, SL-6 or CentOS-6:

yum install https://www.elrepo.org/elrepo-release-6.el6.elrepo.noarch.rpm

To make use of our mirror system, please also install yum-plugin-fastestmirror.

The Repository Contents

ELRepo contains four channels.

elrepo  This is the main channel and is enabled by default. As this channel should not contain packages also present in the distribution, it should be safe to run a 'yum update' with this repository channel enabled.

For example, to install kmod-r8168 (Realtek r8168 NIC driver):

yum install kmod-r8168

Depending on the package being installed or the repository setup, it might be necessary to disable non-elrepo repositories:

yum --disablerepo=\* --enablerepo=elrepo install kmod-nvidia

elrepo-extras  The elrepo-extras channel provides packages and their dependencies that replace/update RHEL distribution packages. It may be enabled in the /etc/yum.repos.d/elrepo.repo file or used with 'yum --enablerepo=elrepo-extras'.

elrepo-testing  The elrepo-testing channel provides packages yet to be released to the main channel and is disabled by default. It may be enabled in the /etc/yum.repos.d/elrepo.repo file or used with 'yum --enablerepo=elrepo-testing'.

elrepo-kernel  The elrepo-kernel channel provides both the long-term support kernels (which have been configured for RHEL-7 and RHEL-6) and the latest stable mainline kernels (which have been configured for RHEL-8 and RHEL-7) using sources available from the Linux Kernel Archives. This channel may be enabled in the /etc/yum.repos.d/elrepo.repo file or used with 'yum --enablerepo=elrepo-kernel'.